I apologize for taking so long, I would've wrote sooner but I had a lot of stuff going on, like house sitting, re-watching RWBY, replaying through both Half-life games, episodes 1 and 2, and Opposing force, and also rewatching Star Wars The Clone Wars (for a possible new story). Mandalorian is really cool by the way, (and no, I will not by making a crossover of it). Pirate it if you can, but I'm not giving my money to Disney.

As for this story, I'm going to be 'leaving it on the back burner' so to speak. I wanna take a break from it as I'm going through a bit of a writer's block and I have many ideas regarding new stories, most of them are RWBY crossovers. I feel like the reason why I want to do so many RWBY crossovers is because I think honestly RWBY isn't that good, its watchable, and I love the characters, but it could definitely be a lot better.

As for new chapters of A Tear in the Source Engine, I'm mostly doing storyboarding right now, trying to see what should go where and when things should and should not happen, so apologies for any delays.

Regarding the people who have commented on my story...

Roboman: Yeah, looking back I definitely could have done better. Hence why I'm going to be writing a throwaway fanfic to help me hone in on my writing skills, and I'm also getting a buddy of mine to help proof read my story. Also, please forgive me as English is not my first language, thanks!

Sh4dowst4lker: as I said before, I do plan on adding Shepherd. As for Barney, I haven't really played blue shift, and I see him more as a background character who appears maybe once or twice before he is eventually 'forgotten'. Which is kind of funny considering Scott Ross's Freeman's mind 2, where Gordon has no idea who the hell Barney is. Which brings another question into Gordon's character, whether or not I want him to be the narcissistic and pseudo-psychopathic Gordon that Scott depicts, it would certainly be funny, but I don't think I'll be going that route.

Not to mention, you only see Barney like four times after Black Mesa, Granted he's an important character, and no doubt there will be references to him and maybe a brief Cameo if I can figure how to do it correctly, but I see him as expendable.

Bill Cipher3: I'm only going to have one of each unit, medic, heavy gunner, engineer, and shotgun guy (and possibly a captured Black-Ops assassin). Mostly for balance reasons and the fact that I don't plan on killing off characters anytime soon. Maybe during the Fall of Beacon arc I might throw in a whole bunch of H.E.C.U., but I kind of try to make characters unique and distinct, which is going to be creative nightmare for me.